A Grammar of Miya (University of California Publications in by Russell G. Schuh

By Russell G. Schuh

A Grammar of Miya describes a language of the Chadic relatives spoken in Northern Nigeria. this is often the 1st documentation of Miya apart from note lists. The grammar describes all elements of the language. Of specific typological curiosity are the tone process, a "terraced point" process within which tone operates over multi-syllabic domain names, and be aware order, that is VXS in lots of contexts.

Structuring feel explores the variation among phrases although outlined and buildings even though developed. It units out to illustrate over 3 volumes, of which this can be the 1st, that the reason of linguistic competence might be shifted from lexical access to syntactic constitution, from reminiscence of phrases to manipulation of ideas.

Ranging from the placement recursive conception of fact is imperative to a conception of that means, this booklet investigates the issues adverbs pose for systematic semantics. Barry Taylor argues that the hitherto promising "predicate modifier" strategy fails to house the extra refined difficulties of adverbial constitution and that Donald Davidson's replacement - to construe adverbs as adjectives on occasions - can purely paintings inside a metaphysical idea of the character of occasions.

E. all the way to L. It is worth noting that underlying Hand L are fully neutralized in utterance initial position. I made and recorded a list of lexically Hand L words, randomly ordered, and had Vaziya repeat the list. There were no pitch differences between H and L. 3The only difference between the system here and Christaller's is that lack of a mark in utterance initial position indicated L for hirn-Twi has nothing corresponding to Miya's Toneless domain. Christaller used consecutive acute accents, as here, to mark (downstepped) H.

This segmental form would yield the predicted tone pattern because the first and second moras would now be u~a. 1), there would be no way to account for [u] in the first syllable without w being present. This word must therefore be considered tonally or segmentally anomalous. , 3. Tonal Phonology (§2) A Grammar of Miya 46 47 1 I 'I One might suggest that multi-tone patterns on nouns of only three moras are in a precarious situation because of the perceptual considerations underlying tone association patterns outlined above.